Transact-SQL

Abstract

Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is the dialect of the Structured Query Language (SQL) adopted by Microsoft’s SQL Server database engine. T-SQL has been around since the early days of the Sybase code in the early 1990s. It has evolved throughout the years and today is a robust programming language based on the ANSI SQL: 2008 standard. In this chapter, you will learn how to access data using T-SQL statements as well as how to use many of the programming capabilities within the database engine, including stored procedures and functions.